. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . seemed to rise with * On or close to the Hill called Monjoie; see the plan from Marino Sanudo atp. 18. t Throughout that year there were not less than 40 machines all at work uponthe city of Acre, battering its houses and its towers, and smashing and overthrowingeverything within their range. There were at least ten of those engines that shotstones so big and heavy that they weighed a good 1500 lbs. by the weight of Cham-pagne ; insomuch that nearly all the towers and forts of Acre were destroyed, and
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . seemed to rise with * On or close to the Hill called Monjoie; see the plan from Marino Sanudo atp. 18. t Throughout that year there were not less than 40 machines all at work uponthe city of Acre, battering its houses and its towers, and smashing and overthrowingeverything within their range. There were at least ten of those engines that shotstones so big and heavy that they weighed a good 1500 lbs. by the weight of Cham-pagne ; insomuch that nearly all the towers and forts of Acre were destroyed, andonly the religious houses were left. And there were slain in this same war good20,000 men on the two sides, but chiefly of Genoese and Spaniards. {Letire dejeanrierre Sarrasin, in MicheVs Joinville, p. 308.) % The origin of these columns is, however, somewhat uncertain. [See Cicogna, I- P- 379] § In 1262, when a Venetian squadron was taken by the Greek fleet in alliancewith the Genoese, the whole of the survivors of the captive crews were blinded byorder of Palaeologus. {Reman, ii. 272.). Figures from St. Sabbas, sent to Venice. [ To face p. 42. WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA 43 their success, and both in seamanship and in splendour theybegan almost to surpass their old rivals. The fall of Acre (1291),and the total expulsion of the Franks from Syria, in greatmeasure barred the southern routes of Indian trade, whilst thepredominance of Genoa in the Euxine more or less obstructedthe free access of her rival to the northern routes by Trebizondand Tana. 32. Truces were made and renewed, but the old fire stillsmouldered. In the spring of 1294 it broke into flame, inconsequence of the seizure in the Grecian seas of threeGenoese vessels by a Venetian fleet. This led to an Bay of Ayas • 1 /—1 1*1 11 m I294- action with a Genoese convoy which sought fight took place off Ayas in the Gulf of Scanderoon,* andthough the Genoese were inferior in strength by one-third theygained a
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